Lone Star College - Tomball COTE Fall 2019 Calendar

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Lone Star College-Tomball

Center for Organizational & Teaching Excellence (COTE)
Located in E-271 · (281) 357-3655
lonestar.edu/cote.htm · facebook.com/lsctcote · twitter.com/COTEatLSCT

Welcome to Kentrie LeDee René G. Arnold Janie Filoteo
the pack! Program Manager Coordinator II: Faculty Fellow
(281) 401-1813 COTE & CLASS (281) 357-3683
(281) 351-3375

Janet Moore Harlan Williams
Campus Trainer Online Instructional
(281) 401-1871 Designer
(281) 401-3698

Elisabeth Browning Wendy Palmgren
Graphic Designer Coordinator
(281) 357-3693 (281) 357-3655

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Important Dates College Holidays View other dates online:

Aug. 18 Payment due Sept. 1–3 Labor Day holiday Registration LoneStar.edu/registration
Aug. 27 Fall classes begin Nov. 21–25 Thanksgiving holiday Tuition Payments LoneStar.edu/payment
Nov. 15 Registration begins SAP Submission LoneStar.edu/sap
Dec. 20–Jan. 2 Winter holidays Refunds/Drop LoneStar.edu/refunds
Dec. 8 Payment due (Winter mini-mester) Final Exams LoneStar.edu/examschedule
Dec. 11–16 Fall Final Exams
Dec. 17 End of semester Dates subject to change. Visit the website for the
Dec. 18 Winter mini-mester begins most current information.

LoneStar.edu/academic-calendar

Instructional Professional Development Saturday-Thursday, August 18-23

Culture: Provide professional Fall Welcome Week Fall Faculty & Staff
To see the schedule go to lonestar.edu/29043.htm/. Welcome Week
development opportunities focusing

upon nurturing a culture of respect Monday, August 20 – Thursday, August 30 D2L

and collaboration (From LSC Desire2Learn (D2L) Open Labs

Strategic Plan) 2 p.m. – 3 p.m. in E-256

a. Cultural Beliefs: To provide Presented by Harlan S. Williams, MA, MBA
Facilitated, non-structured workspaces for faculty learning to use
trainings that will Desire2Learn

focus upon practical steps the D2L interface. Participants may come-and-go at will, and work

for emphasizing/implementing independently or with knowledgeable facilitators.

cultural beliefs at Lone Star College -

Tomball. This is a lab — Come when you like, leave when you like.

Employee Development: Professional Development focused on Monday, August 27
the learning and development of employees.
Fall Classes Begin

Curriculum Enhancement: Provide professional development
relating to curriculum redesign and/or enhancement for the purpose of
increasing student success.
a. Online Education: To provide training opportunities that will
enable an increase and expansion in online and hybrid course
offerings.
b. GRIT: To provide training opportunities that will focus upon methods
for implementing GRIT based assignments and activities within
courses.
c. Developmental Education Acceleration: To provide training
opportunities relating to non-course based options and other
innovative Developmental Education practices.
d. Instructional Best Practices: To provide trainings relating to proven
best instructional practices. These practices can be discipline-
based or nationally-proven best practices.

Persistence: Provide professional development opportunities Register for workshops in
focused upon data and course-based actions related to the goal myworkshops.lonestar.edu
of increasing student persistence.
a. Illume: To provide training opportunities that will focus upon
ways faculty can use data to support retention and persistence
efforts.
b. Early Alert: To provide training opportunities that will focus
upon ways to expand the usage of early alert and associated
activities.

AUGUST
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19 20 21 22 23 Fall Welcome
Week
Desire2Learn (D2L) Open Labs
2pm-3pm: E-256 24 25

Fall Welcome Week 31
To see the schedule go to lonestar.edu/29043.htm/.

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Begin Events on

Active Calendar

CANCELLED

Desire2Learn (D2L) Open Labs

2pm-3pm: E-256

Saturday – Monday, September 1 – 3 Thursday, September 20

Labor Day Holiday Lecture Series: “Ethnicity and Race:
All offices closed.
Identity in a Changing World” by Janie OTE COI N
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Monday – Friday, September 10 – 14 D2L 2 p.m. – 3 p.m. in E-100 myworkshops.lonestar.edu

Desire2Learn (D2L) Open Labs Drawing on the discipline of sociology and the methodology of

1:30 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. in E-255 autoethnography, participants will be asked to consider the differences between the

Presented by Harlan S. Williams, MA, MBA Desire2Learn terms Hispanic, Latino, race, and ethnicity. More importantly, insight will be shared
Facilitated, non-structured workspaces for faculty
learning to use on the significance of understanding the differences between these labels. Though

the D2L interface. Participants may come-and-go at will, and work considered a difficult subject, the workshop hopes to inspire dialogue amongst

independently or with knowledgeable facilitators. participants working towards inclusivity for all.

This is a lab — Come when you like, leave when you like. At the end of this lecture, learners will be able to:

1. Recognize autoethnography.

2. Understand thedifference between ethnicity and race.

Wednesdays, September 12 & 26 3. Interpret race as a social construction.

Toastmasters: Art of Speaking NOTE COI
1 p.m. – 3 p.m. in E-253 www
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COTE HSI Title V Grant Initiative
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https://tinyurl.com/ToastmastersLSCT

Are you looking to improve your public speaking

skills? The Center of Organizational and Teaching Excellence

(COTE) has partnered with Toastmasters to bring a public

speaking series for leaders wanting to develop existing

speaking skills and take them to the next level. There are only 12 seats for this

cohort and an application will need to be completed with a commitment to attend all

six sessions.

Thursday, September 13 OTE COI N
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2 p.m. – 3 p.m. in E-253 COTE
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Seizure training provides instructors and other school personnel

with information needed to recognize seizures, respond with

appropriate first aid, and understand the impact seizures have on students.

Register for workshops in
myworkshops.lonestar.edu

SEPTEMBER
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday

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Labor Day
Holiday

All offices closed.

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23 24 1pm-3pm: E-253 2 pm-3 pm: E-253

Desire2Learn (D2L) Open Labs

1:30pm-3:30pm: E-255

18 19 20Lecture
Series:
“Ethnicity
and Race” by
Janie Fileto
2pm-3pm: E-100

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Art of
Speaking
1pm-3pm: E-253

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Wednesdays, October 10 & 24

Toastmasters: Art of Speaking NOTE COI
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https://tinyurl.com/ToastmastersLSCT

Are you looking to improve your public speaking

skills? The Center of Organizational and Teaching Excellence

(COTE) has partnered with Toastmasters to bring a public

speaking series for leaders wanting to develop existing

speaking skills and take them to the next level. There are only 12 seats for this

cohort and an application will need to be completed with a commitment to attend all

six sessions.

Wednesday, October 17

Guest Lecturer Ambassador (ret.) Chase Untermeyer
“U.S. Foreign Policy and Trade with the Middle East” ???
9:30 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. in E-100 ???
This presentation will introduce Lone Star College-Tomball faculty and
students to the making of U.S. foreign policy, a colorful review of the
inner workings of the Department of State, our diplomatic machine.
Program supported by the C enter for Leadership, Academic and Student Success, HSI
Title V Grant Initiative

Thursday, October 25

Lecture Series: “What I Learned About

Leadership, I Learned in the Classroom, OTE COI

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2 p.m. – 3 p.m. in E-100

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Monday, October 29 IT’S
Instructional Technology Sessions
It’s To Go: All About the Assessment (Tomball)
9:00 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. in E-253
myworkshops.lonestar.edu

Instructors are required to do a lot of “keeping up:” keeping up InTesStcerhusnsciotoiolnonsgayl
with student progress, keeping up with lessons, and keeping

up with students in a general way. All of these can be quite

cumbersome tasks, but there are now tools available that make all of these tasks easier.

This session will provide instructors with ways that both the student and instructor can

keep up with the student’s academic progress. We will discuss the importance of

informal, low stakes, assessments and then the many free tools that are available for

both formal and informal assessment. Register for workshops in
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OCTOBER
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday

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Art of 19 20
Speaking 26 27
1pm-3pm: E-253

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21 22 (ret.) Chase
Untermeyer
9:30am-10:30am:
E-100 ???

23 24Toastmasters Lecture 25
Art of Series:

Speaking “What I Learned

1pm-3pm: E-253 About Leadership,
I Learned in the

Classroom, II”

2pm-3pm: E-100

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Go: All
About the

Assessment

by Latoya

Hardman Lewis

9am-11:30am: ???

Wednesdays, November 7 & 14 IT’SFriday, November 16

Toastmasters: Art of Speaking NOTE COI It’s To Go: All About Google (CyFair)
1 p.m. – 3 p.m. in E-253 www 1:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. Technology Building (TECH) in 104-B
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changed. Google, what we first knew to be an internet search
skills? The Center of Organizational and Teaching Excellence

(COTE) has partnered with Toastmasters to bring a public engine, transformed from being just a noun to eventually a verb

speaking series for leaders wanting to develop existing to now, a way of life. Today we cannot only search, but we can gmail, find where we

speaking skills and take them to the next level. There are only 12 seats for this are going with Google maps, and even turn to our newest search engine: YouTube,

cohort and an application will need to be completed with a commitment to attend all all thanks to Google. Google has made it possible for us to create, collaborate, and

six sessions. socialize which are all things that we are doing in education today. Just as Google has

transformed our way of living, it is beginning to transform education. In this session,

Tuesday, November 13 IT’S participants will learn about how to use certain Google applications in the classroom.
Instructional Technology Sessions
It’s To Go: Beefing Up Your Current Learning Monday, November 19 IT’S
Materials (System Office) Instructional Technology Sessions
9:00 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. Training Development Center (TDC) It’s To Go: How to Handle Social Media &
Networking in the Classroom (Montgomery)
in Computer Lab 107-109 myworkshops.lonestar.edu InTesStcerhusnsciotoiolnonsgayl 1:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. in G-102 myworkshops.lonestar.edu
It is often said that “a good presentation” makes all the

difference. When instructors teach/lecture, they are delivering Through social media, we are able to create and share content InTesStcerhusnsciotoiolnonsgayl
with a community; this community can then view, comment on,
a presentation, and how that presentation is delivered can impact student learning,

engagement, and participation. With all that is expected from instructors, the time it and collaborate with what they find interesting and important,

will take to learn something completely new is not possible. There are ways to enhance and we can do all of these things in real time. There seems to be a push to use

current learning materials, both presentations and handouts, that have already been the social networking services that students are using in their personal lives in the

created. This course will show instructors how to use specific features in both MS Word classroom. However, students don’t always want to blur of the line between their

and MS PowerPoint to make handouts and presentations look more professional and personal and professional environments. There is value in both using social media

that can help students better understand the information they are given. in the classroom and teaching students social media etiquette, but neither of these

has to be achieved by using social networking services like Facebook, Twitter, and

Thursday, November 15 Instagram. There are websites and apps available that allow students to capture what

Lecture Series: “Thinking Outside they are learning and express that learning in a social way. This training will introduce

Your Culture: Divergent Thinking and participants to these resources.
International Education” by Margaret
Jelinek Lewis, PhD OTE COI N
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Tuesday, November 20
2 p.m. – 3 p.m. in E-100 IT’S
It’s To Go: Using Video in the Classroom Instructional Technology Sessions
This interactive session will explore the effects of divergent thinking and cross- (University Park) myworkshops.lonestar.edu
2:00 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. Computer Lab, Building 13 in 315
cultural awareness on problem solving at all levels. We’ll share anecdotes from
Television shows, movies, and video clips have become our latest
our own experiences and I’ll present research that suggests that our strength lies in pastime. If we aren’t in front of a big screen, then we are streaming InTesStcerhusnsciotoiolnonsgayl

our differences. Finally, we’ll discuss opportunities to present students with diverse shows, movies, videos, and other video clips on a smaller one.

experiences and education from international perspectives. Videos/video clips can also be used in the classroom to either prepare students for

International Education Week is November 12 – 16, 2018. learning or to teach students about various topics within our disciplines. Participants

will learn about different websites/tools to find videos that not only relate to their

Program supported by the Center for Leadership, Academic and Student Success, content but that can also engage
HSI Title V Grant Initiative.
their students. Additionally, Register for workshops in

participants will learn how to myworkshops.lonestar.edu

create instructional videos for the

purpose of classroom instruction.

Sunday NOVEMBER Friday Saturday
Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday
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4 5 6 7 8 9Toastmasters 10
Art of 17
Speaking 24
1pm-3pm: E-253

11 12 13 14It’s To Go Lecture 15 16It’s To Go
(System Series: (CyFair)
Toastmasters
Art of

Office) Speaking “Thinking 1pm-3pm:

9am-11:30am: 1pm-3pm: E-253 Outside Your Technology Building

Training Development Culture...” in 104-B

Center (TDC) in 2 pm-3 pm: E-100

Comp. Lab 107-109

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(Montgomery)
It’s To Go Thanksgiving Holiday
(University All offices closed.

1pm-3pm: G-102 Park)

2pm-4:30pm:

Computer Lab,

Building 13 in 315

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Thanksgiving
Holiday

All offices closed.

Wednesday, December 12

Final Exams

Thursday – Wednesday, December 20 – January 2

Winter Holiday
All offices closed.

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DECEMBER Friday
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